lickerish
English
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “lickerish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Etymology
Compare lickerous.
Adjective
lickerish (comparative more lickerish, superlative most lickerish)
- Eager; craving; urged by desire; eager to taste or enjoy; greedy.
- Lecherous; lustful, mawkish.
- Tempting the appetite; dainty.
- 1998, Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet, Virago (2018), page 399:
- I thought of all the lickerish pleasures of Felicity Place.
- (Northern England) Sweet, luscious.
Derived terms
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